Block courses

With the Block courses addon, you sell several sessions as a fixed package, for example an 8-week beginners' course or a workshop weekend. Customers book the block once and are then registered for all its sessions. You activate the addon in the Manager under Addon Store.

What is a block?

A block is a fixed sequence of sessions of an offering that can only be booked as a whole:

• Customers book and pay once for all sessions.
• Each customer takes up a spot in every session of the block.
• An offering can have several blocks, for example a spring block and an autumn block.

Customers can't book or cancel individual sessions of a block separately. You yourself can also assign a single session of a block when booking someone in.

Create a block offering

1. Open Manager → Offerings and tap New Offering.
2. Choose the Session block type of offering. Without the addon, it shows a lock and leads to the Addon Store.
3. At the top of the form, enter the title, payment types and price. The price applies to the whole block.
4. In the Block sessions section, under Block pattern, set the sessions of the first block (see the next section).
5. Tap Create Offering. The offering and the first block are created together.

You create further blocks in the offering in the Blocks section with Create new block.

Set the sessions of a block

There are three patterns for the sessions of a block:

• Consecutive block: several days in a row, for example a workshop weekend. You choose Start date, Until date, start time and duration.
• Weekly rhythm: regularly on certain Weekdays. Under How often? you choose every week or every 2, 3 or 4 weeks. Under Series ends you choose Count and enter the Number of sessions, or Until date and pick the last day.
• Individual sessions: you create each session individually with date, start time and duration, with Add session. This also allows several sessions on the same day.

The Preview shows all sessions that will be created. Tap a session to exclude it, for example because of holidays. Tapping it again includes it again. A block has at most 200 sessions.

With Block name you give the block a name that customers see on the booking page, for example "Spring 2026".

Edit a block: price, spots and status

You open an existing block in the offering in the Blocks section. There you set:

• The block: Block name, Internal notes and Status.
• Price and spots: Price for the whole block, Credits for the whole block and Spots in the block. If left empty, the offering's value applies.
• Late entry: with Allow late entry, customers can book a running block from the next session and pay pro rata for the remaining sessions.
• Delivery: trainer, location and room.

Below that are the block's sessions. With Add session you add a session.

The fields Minimum participants and Fixed price for late entry are saved, but currently have no effect when booking. Late joiners always pay pro rata.

Status of a block

A block has a status:

Bookicorn switches the status to Running and Completed automatically.

How customers book a block

On the booking page, blocks appear in the offering under Available blocks with their sessions and the price. With Book block now, the customer books all sessions at once. In the customer app, blocks are listed under Series.

The customer can pay with Stripe, PayPal, credits, payment on site, bank transfer or a voucher that covers the whole amount. Companions can't be booked along for a block.

If Automatically confirm bookings is switched off for the offering, the block booking comes in as a request, which you confirm under Manager → Bookings.

Without the addon, the booking page doesn't show block offerings.

Cancel a block booking or a block

• Customers only cancel a block as a whole: in the customer app with Cancel entire booking. The cancellation deadline counts from the block's first session. The full amount or all credits are refunded.
• You cancel a block booking under Manager → Bookings with Cancel booking. Block bookings are listed there as one row and can be filtered via Booking type with Block.
• A single session of the block is cancelled like any session. Only the attendances for this session are cancelled, and there is no refund.
• The whole block is cancelled in the block with Cancel block. This only works as long as no active booking is attached to it. Cancel the bookings individually beforehand so that refunds and notifications go out.

Block, session series or prepaid card?

• Block: a fixed group attends a fixed sequence of sessions. Book once, pay once, all sessions.
• Session series (Fixed sessions type of offering with Session series): the sessions repeat, but each one is booked individually.
• Prepaid card with credits: the customer buys, for example, 10 credits and uses them to book individual sessions flexibly. More under Credits.

Which type of offering suits which case is explained in Types of offering at a glance.

Frequently asked questions

Do I set up a 10-session pass as a block or as a course? If the same people attend 10 fixed sessions, create a block. If customers should choose 10 sessions freely from your schedule, create offerings with fixed sessions and sell a prepaid card with 10 credits.

Can a customer cancel individual sessions of a block? No. Customers only cancel the whole block.

Can someone join a running block? Yes, if Allow late entry is switched on in the block. The customer books from the next session and pays pro rata.

Is there a certificate of attendance after a block? No, Bookicorn doesn't create a certificate. For each session you can export the participant list as a PDF.

Can a block have several sessions on the same day? Yes, with the Individual sessions pattern.

More pages

• Types of offering at a glance →
• Create an offering →
• Addons at a glance →